books I want to read that not enough people are talking about!

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Here are some books that are on my TBR that don’t get enough attention!
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books mentioned:
Indelicacy by Amina Cain
Crudo by Olivia Laing
The Ghost in the House by Sara O'Leary
Anne of Green Gables the Graphic Novel by Brenna Thummler
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Ye by Guilherme Petreca
The Gran Lebowitz Reader
Orphic PAris by Henri Cole
Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
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☞ My name is Ariel and I’m a Canadian writer, poet, and KZfaqr. I organize my shelves by genre and then colour and my favourite book is Animal Farm. I've been making bookish content online for a decade and love spreading a love of reading through videos, panels, articles, and more!
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@ella-wh9kg 3 жыл бұрын

Ariel, how dare you to not mention the BOOKSHELVES!! There up, they are there, they are THRIVING!

@ArielBissett 3 жыл бұрын

🙈🙈🙈🙈 video about it coming soon!!

@Asakyoshi 3 жыл бұрын

@@ArielBissett can't wait!!

@zaynabrayaan9198 3 жыл бұрын

Yesssd

@larissaprates1384 3 жыл бұрын

I love the casual angle showing the bookshelves. Like every video has a new corner of ariels house and I’m loving the mystery of “which corner will appear in the next video?”

@aless.andra9620 3 жыл бұрын

Yay, Ariel bringing back "7 books i want to read that nobody cares about"! That was my favorite video of yours!

@ArielBissett 3 жыл бұрын

I changed the title because I didn’t want to be mean to the books hahahaha 🙈🙈🙈

@oanadiaconescu3559 3 жыл бұрын

OMG that’s how I found Ariel! By looking up books about Frieda Kahlo on KZfaq!

@ellelucius 3 жыл бұрын

“They actually have nothing in common” made me laugh 😂 I sort of associate books that live together on the shelves. Everything in its right place 📚

@sanctussimplesuo 3 жыл бұрын

FINALLY, someone else knows about The Blue Castle! I read it a few years ago and it's my favorite L.M. Montgomery book, topping Anne of Green Gables which I never thought possible! L.M. Montgomery's writing is so descriptive and beautiful! I hope you enjoy it Ariel!

@jegheterokjegheterok 3 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate the fact that you took the time to research how to pronounce a last name, rather than just saying "sorry i'm probably butchering this" (as is so common in the youtube space)!

@burninembers 3 жыл бұрын

Ariel on BooksUnbound: I don't read pretentious books Also Ariel: 13:24

@ArielBissett 3 жыл бұрын

I CONTAIN MULTITUDES

@ToriKo_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@ArielBissett hahahahaha

@anniebanana3698 3 жыл бұрын

@@ArielBissett I was hoping for an opening like, "In my defence..." 😂 😂 😂

@TheFloMachine 3 жыл бұрын

Coming from a small country that has a language basically nobody outside of the country knows, there are so many great books published here that never get translated, and I really wish they were as I want to share my favourites with the rest of the world.

@leabakir5869 3 жыл бұрын

what country?

@TheFloMachine 3 жыл бұрын

@@leabakir5869 Norway

@sihamm4663 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god someone other than me knows about “the blue castle” So exciting !!!!! The main character, Valency Sterling was so ahead of her time 💕💕 honestly she’s one of my favorite characters of all time. I’ve read it May 2020 and it’s about time I give it a reread. The audiobook is fantastic as well. Love from Saudi Arabia 💕

@ArielBissett 3 жыл бұрын

Well this is a great rec! Now I’m extra excited!

@KierTheScrivener 3 жыл бұрын

Oh I read it in July of 2020. A new favourite as well!

@Katie_DelTaco 3 жыл бұрын

I just signed up for StoryGraph a few days ago and it was one of the first recommendations for me. I recognized Lucy Maud Montgomery's name but had never heard of the book...now here it is! Just requested from the library 😍

@sihamm4663 3 жыл бұрын

@@Katie_DelTaco ENJOOOY 😍😍😍

@rutakuzmane3227 2 жыл бұрын

In my late teens I also had a period of looking up not so famous titles by famous authors and the Blue castle was amazing. Now, being a 30 year old, it starts to seem to me that there has always been the checklist for how we are supposed to spend our lives and then there is each person's individual moment of letting the prejudice go . That, as now even social studies say, is the true beginning of happiness, no matter how old the person is. I fully agree that this book should be talked about more.

@nazreenmujib3036 3 жыл бұрын

"it's also short, and Canadian!" me too!! haha

@jime9525 3 жыл бұрын

i'm in a literature class and your notification is just *chef's kiss*

@erinjoynson-evans1271 3 жыл бұрын

What I'd give to have Ariel as a friend, her energy is just so fantastic haha 🖤

@emmatodd823 3 жыл бұрын

ME TOO I need more people in my life like her

@4444Jules 3 жыл бұрын

Agreeeeeeed 😫

@samwright8599 3 жыл бұрын

The Blue Castle is so dear to me and I've just put that anne graphic in my basket. I'm so glad people still love anne.

@sundriedolive 3 жыл бұрын

Sara O'Leary was my professor last term and is genuinely one of the loveliest people I've met! I know her children's books get a lot of love but it's so nice to see her fiction be featured :-)

@EpicReads 3 жыл бұрын

We are always excited to hear ANY recs you have!!

@victoriaconn6976 3 жыл бұрын

The graphic novel of Anne of green gables is how I got my 6 year old to really get into reading!

@sheyslibrary 3 жыл бұрын

I desperately want more people to read Chemistry by Weike Wang. It’s this short, witty book about a woman dealing with burnout from her Chemistry PhD program, snapping and destroying property at her university, then struggling to figure out her identity outside of the work and productivity that she, her parents, her partner, and society has always defined her by. It’s full of dry humor and is one of the best books I’ve ever read (and I usually only read fantasy. My fav quote: “That about sticks and stones and bones. But my bones are very brittle. And I am lactose intolerant.” I love how her sentences aren’t complete and the humor is very dry. Can’t recommend it enough.

@TheMarissaHope 3 жыл бұрын

The enthusiasm for all these books made my whole day! One of the books I'm writing a paper on that not *everyone* may be familiar with since it is no longer in print is "Good Morning, Miss Dove" by Frances Gray Patton. It's extremely sentimental to me, my copy is vintage and barely holding up, but I looove studying this book! Especially because there's just not as much out there about it, and I even found a vintage Japanese movie program (it was made into a film in 1955, released in Japan in 1956). Anyways, I loved this video and added several books to my TBR! The most exciting adventures as an adult is reading classic authors everyone knows, but reading their less popular books (I love John Steinbeck, but I love reading all his other little books they did NOT make you read in school).

@davidschmidt5507 3 жыл бұрын

So into this line: 10:44: "You don't read the backlist... that's dumb". Couldn't agree more lol

@ladyicondraco 3 жыл бұрын

The lavender fireplace and baseboards are giving me life! Or is it periwinkle? The light changes between different shots. Still giving me life.

@shayxo1745 3 жыл бұрын

The Blue Castle is fabulous! I think you will love the main character and it’s just such a fun heartwarming story.

@andreaspromenade 3 жыл бұрын

I am really enjoying reading "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine", have not finished it yet, but I'm enjoying getting to know the main character and her past

@gracevanhoven5838 3 жыл бұрын

Loved that book!

@andreaspromenade 3 жыл бұрын

It's getting better the more I advance

@janieishme 3 жыл бұрын

For years, I've been recommending 'The Language of Flowers' by Vanessa Diffenbaugh - AMAZING and heart-squeezing novel that breaks my heart every time I see it in a sales section or a dusty pile.

@jess1753 2 жыл бұрын

Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next Series needs to be talked about more!! She's a literary detective who, in the first book 'The Eyre Affair', has to save Jane Eyre by going into the book... It's so good!! Also, all of your content... It's calming and comforting when anxiety hits, so thank you! Your creativity, your art, is really appreciated!

@oliviahannon6055 3 жыл бұрын

The last book (8) in the Anne series takes place during WW1, if you wanted to know the more specific time period 😊 I’ve had blue castle on my tbr FOREVER, really need to get around to it

@keldyshka 3 жыл бұрын

ahh I must recommend all of lm montgomery’s other novels!! the emily of new moon series is so dear to my heart! and the story girl + the golden road are SUCH PERFECT, WONDERFUL depictions of childhood wonder. I’ve read almost all of her other books and I can never get enough of her writing, it’s just so wonderful! I hope you can get around to them someday :D

@yeppeo_fan476 3 жыл бұрын

the bookshelves are up!! ahhh!!

@an-katrienderoover2174 3 жыл бұрын

The bookshelves in the back, the recommendations,... I love everything about this video! Talking about books that are not as well known as they deserve to be: I loved March by Geraldine Brooks. So if you love Year of Wonders, give that one a shot too!

@ArielBissett 3 жыл бұрын

Ooooo! I could look into the backlist of an author I found while looking for backlist books, haha!

@ZoeMikelStites 3 жыл бұрын

oh I'm so glad I'm not the only one who finds comfort in reading pandemic books. I read multiple at the beginning of the year and it was massively cathartic for me.

@ZoeMikelStites 3 жыл бұрын

Also I have an indie reading project where I'm specifically reading self/indie published and small authors so there's a lot of books that I like but nobody I know has read XD I highly highly recommend Remaining Aileen by Autumn Lindsey

@lexanneklimes5411 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE BLUE CASTLE!!!!!!! It's a great book, my mom introduced me to it last year. I really liked "East" by Edith Pattou, it's a Beauty and the Beast/Eros & Psyche story about a girl and a polar bear. Also, "Once Upon a Marigold" about a boy falling for the princess and the powers that be trying to crush them (very cute, and the princess has powers).

@accordingtokristin2031 3 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna scream, the shelves in the back. I AM WAY TO EXCITED FOR YOUR VIDEO ON THEM.

@SFlaidlaw101 3 жыл бұрын

So excited to dig into these new book recommendations. ❤️❤️❤️

@AnneleenRoesems 3 жыл бұрын

I'm currently reading all of the Anne of Green Gables novels and enjoying them! I'm not Canadian, so I don't have the same familiarity with Anne as you have. I lived in Nova Scotia for three months during my teens and when I introduced myself as Anne, people would just say "oh like Anne of Green Gables" and I had no idea what they were talking about lol The Blue Castle sounds really good! I'd love to get my hands on it 😊

@ellias 3 жыл бұрын

the books, the shelves, the taste, YOU-- IMMACULATE!!!! This corner of the house looking so good!!!!

@ArielBissett 3 жыл бұрын

Aw Ellias thank you 🙈 it’s so lovely to see you in my comments!

@katia9192 3 жыл бұрын

unrelated but the background looks so cute and cozy, your home is turning out wonderfully!!

@andrearobyn3701 3 жыл бұрын

Yes for more Ottessa Moshfegh!! Homesick for Another World was quite good, a lot of the stories I loved though as with any collection they're not all stellar. I really hope you enjoy it

@whistletoe 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting all the books in the description! Every booktuber should do this :)

@abigailroberts425 3 жыл бұрын

I read Year of Wonder when I was in high school and was captivated by it.

@larissaprates1384 3 жыл бұрын

What is giving me life right now is the fact that I painted my nails today and I just realized they’re the same color ariels fireplace which is my favorite color!!!!

@madelineanderson96 3 жыл бұрын

I loved "The Cantoras" about wlw pre-uprising in Uruguay across their lives, I learnt stuff, I laughed, I cried

@mira-lu4gw 3 жыл бұрын

"spooky, short, and Canadian" pretty good descriptor for books and people :)

@evadierickx9615 3 жыл бұрын

Omg, the bookshelves look so good!

@fruktsodaadorable 3 жыл бұрын

that book about paris will make you miss paris more! I'm the same way but with edinburgh and I started re-reading the 44 Scotland Street books and im just cry!ing! about the fact that I'm not there!! But also, those books are great and I highly recommend them if one wants a slow paced book where there isn't really a plot, one just gets to follow different characters life. Like slow-tv but in book form!

@Yodapenguin 3 жыл бұрын

I love your vids!! Thanks for all of the wholesome, lovely book content❤️

@alodiah2422 3 жыл бұрын

Yaaay your new vid!! Feels like home, you're a comfort person to me and a big inspiration, now back to the video with a pen and paper to elongate my TBR list, yupiii!!! Lots of love!

@sandradelvecchio6894 3 жыл бұрын

You are r the he future of what libraries scan be. Our library closed as fast as they could shut the doors last year, after six months they allowed “appointments”. No regard for the idea of those materials belonging freely to we the public (I’m in Pennsylvania, not CA). Just their attitude! These books are ideas and relationships we have, not just paper and ink! A lot of people in “libraries” turn more people off than on. I’ve worked at three local libraries for an extended time. If people like you worked at libraries more people would dive in more and more lovely authors would get their due, not just the corporate authors on automatic lists at libraries. And I’m 54, I had four kids when I was 27.

@Aiiidamoradiii 3 жыл бұрын

i’ve been watching your videos for so long that your voice is so soothing and nostalgic for me, i really enjoy watching your content to make me feel better. thank you for continuing to post after all these years ❤️✨

@avanoe4414 3 жыл бұрын

Ariel I read Station Eleven because of you last month and HOLY COW 🐄🐄🐄 that book was so amazing!!! Thank you so much for the rec💕✨📚

@duckpondwithoutducks 3 жыл бұрын

I love The Blue Castle! I love practically everything by LMM, but The Blue Castle is my favourite! 😄 It, along with Jane Eyre, have been my favourite novels since I first read them when I was 12 (which was almost 30 years ago now.) 😳

@baharhoshyar6752 3 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness for your channel! I’ve been struggling with finding books I like. I think I’m going to enjoy the books you are recommending!

@thewatchfemme4051 3 жыл бұрын

The Blue Castle is amazing! So is L.M. Montgomery. I read her biography at the beginning of quarantine. A very long book about someone who sat in her room and wrote books. That’s a bit reductive but I loved it, and love Maud deeply. Sometimes I talk about Anne and Gilbert like old friends. Happy reading!

@ArielBissett 3 жыл бұрын

Omg I’ve been in a big biography mood.. I’m looking this up!!

@thewatchfemme4051 3 жыл бұрын

@@ArielBissett it’s called The Gift of Wings by Mary Henley Rubio. ☺️

@janethansen9612 3 жыл бұрын

I read Year of Wonders years and years ago, and remember liking it. How weirdly relevant it seems now, I must re read it.

@judyrene 3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@BooksNest 3 жыл бұрын

Loved these recs! Have added a couple to my wish list!

@antoniabuchanan5229 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t wait to see more house updates. I see you have a new bookshelves!

@ahmyakm9176 3 жыл бұрын

I love your "new books" videos. It always contains some really interesting and kinda random (which adds to the fun) books with exciting topics.

@eshaquiche21 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my word, I'm so excited to hear you talk about the Blue Castle!!!!! I read that book for the first time earlier in the year and I adored it. I related to her so much! I hope you love it too 😊

@sivoplavozelena 3 жыл бұрын

I was so happy to hear you mention The Blue Castle! I read it a few years ago (the rationale was the same - I love Anne of Green Gables books) and it instantly became one of my favourite books! It' perfect in every way 😍

@laura__5544 3 жыл бұрын

You have to read the whole Anne of Green Gables series! You'll get adult Anne, and there are 7 or 8 books. When I was a teenager, the 3rd book was my favorite (Anne of the Island).

@heyitsgabs21 Жыл бұрын

year of wonders, flashback to year 11 english, also melted the hell out of my copy's spine.

@ruqayyahchadi 3 жыл бұрын

so I just finished watching the one from 2017, and you recommended books that I DREAM of discovering (and reading)!! This is so exciting aaaah 🤩 I really hope we get to see more of it, or any of your videos actually. You make everything you talk about sound so fascinating and lovely and I’d pick up literally anything you talk about! Thanks Ariel 💘

@dalilah6655 3 жыл бұрын

I love this video! I didn’t realize that there was a graphic novel for Anne of Green Gables and now I really want to read it!!

@rosedaly8385 3 жыл бұрын

Always LOVE a new book rec vid!!!

@elizfrancestodd 3 жыл бұрын

whenever i find myself in a reading slump, i come and watch your videos because your enthusiasm and excitement is infectious 😊

@yonathanasefaw9001 3 жыл бұрын

Great list of books! Gonna read them soon!

@naymadic5053 3 жыл бұрын

I now want to read EVERY book on this list! I love your book taste and the way you talk about books

@Alicia120904 3 жыл бұрын

OMG YOUR SHELVEEEEEEES! 🤩🤩🤩 (the hype is real, specially for the dust jackets ✌🏼)

@paigieodo 3 жыл бұрын

I've read all of the stories in Homesick for Another World! It's a wild one. As with most short story collections, some stories are better than others. But all of them are kind of insane. Moshfegh has an incredible way of understanding humans. She writes them in such a grotesque and intentionally unsettling way. It's hard to say whether I liked it, because "liking" the type of stories that she writes is challenging with how unnerving they can be, but they definitely fascinated me. She paints a fantastic visual and emotional picture.

@nnbk_fornow 3 жыл бұрын

You made me put a few books on my tbr! Exciting!

@anchikakhanna9402 3 жыл бұрын

I read the blue castle earlier this year I LOVED IT!!! I can't wait to hear your thoughts

@kimesch9698 3 жыл бұрын

Adore!!! that fireplace cover!!!

@victoriarigbymusic 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for existing. Your videos are my happy place 💖

@kevinsfieldnotes 3 жыл бұрын

We just watched your video on blackout poetry in my AP English class ❤️❤️

@luc2571 3 жыл бұрын

The lighting and color grading? I think? looks SO good. It’s calming and so so visually pleasing IDKKKKK

@iamweebie3 3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh, Ariel.....I'm a newish subscriber. Your "I just purchased a house" video ended up in my feed one day and I've been hooked. You're such a joy to watch. I'm writing a comment because this video reminds me of the voracioius reader I used to be. I, too, was that child who obsessed over my schoolastic book orders, loved the crack of a new hardcover and the candy necklace fragrance of the newly printed pages. I stopped reading in recent years. I'm not sure why. I would guess my anxiety was a contributing factor. My attention wanders to easily. Watching you wax poetic about your finds makes me long to experience those feels myself. I love a good ghost story so I'm going to order The Ghost in the House and hope it serves as the gateway read that shepards me back into the reader world long gone from my life. Great content. Thank you for making me smile (NYS, age 55).

@andreaspromenade 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, now I have some books to be excited about too!

@DesertBloomBettas 3 жыл бұрын

YAY more books! I am so here!

@wibbley_wobbly3580 3 жыл бұрын

I randomly picked up A Proper Marriage by Doris Lessing in a second-hand bookstore and loved it! It's the second book in a series of semi-autobiographical novels about a young woman raised in colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), but for me it's perfect as a standalone book too.

@gabrielarmstrong1308 3 жыл бұрын

I just finished Homesick For Another World earlier this week!! So bizarre and funny and tender and i am absolutely obsessed with every single story

@KierTheScrivener 3 жыл бұрын

The Blue Castle read last summer it is extraordinary. Adored it. It is looking at exactly what you love, 20s finding herself just around 1905. To be that utter Montgomery nerd. She was born in 1874 and died in the 1943. And like Anne stubbornly wanted the E, she went by Maud and didn't want the e . Added so many of the others to my tbr 📚

@sarahalsaeedi2600 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ariel! We need more videos like this; I just added a few you mentioned to my cart already.. hahah :D

@knitsmeganb 3 жыл бұрын

Homesick for Another World is actually next on my list, I grabbed the eBook when it was super on sale a few months ago. I also have Finding George Orwell in Burma and have been meaning to get to it for a while.

@ingerlouise 3 жыл бұрын

Ariel coming through with amazing book recs as always

@njc1231 3 жыл бұрын

I love Geraldine Brooks! People of the Book is my favorite, but this makes me want to give Year of Wonders another read.

@ChaoticBibliophile 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVED Homesick for Another World! It’s so good 😍 I’ve had Crudo on my shelves for years, perhaps your video will push me to finally get to it 😅 Thank you for this video, lots of interesting reads!

@anneth7154 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! I read Year of Wonders last summer and (as it was my favorite) did a book report on it in the fall. Honestly, it broke me in the best way possible. I hope you love it!!!

@mari.art1999 3 жыл бұрын

the ghost in the house sounds a lot like the sixth sense! very interesting! already added to my tbr!

@Carmen-cl5ny 3 жыл бұрын

I loved The Blue Castle. One of my favourite books!

@k.s.thompson5766 3 жыл бұрын

"The Fran Lebowitz Reader" is on my wishlist and also came to my attention after watching the Netflix series, which I loved. Thanks for the reminder. The cover for "The Blue Castle" is gorgeous!

@boglarkasmith 3 жыл бұрын

I looove L.M. Montgomery's works! 😍😍

@yazkaz 3 жыл бұрын

I love graphic novels more than anything I would love a whole video on your recommendations!!

@terahmarie5197 3 жыл бұрын

The Blue Castle is SO GOOD. Favorite LM book

@karic.1743 3 жыл бұрын

I am about to be 30 this June, and I’m trying not to be depressed about not being married, not having children, and just existing trying to make ends meet. I’m also on a reading slump and I’m trying to get back into reading after the semester ended. 😫help!

@littletinyegg 3 жыл бұрын

Homesick for another world was good! A lot of the stories are so similar to MYORAR but It was addicting in the same kind of morbidly fascinating way

@Larissa_KD 3 жыл бұрын

Yayyy the shelves are up!!!

@nicky_bee 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely recommendations!

@lzzparis 3 жыл бұрын

Yes to Year of Wonders! I loved it so much.

@subtlefire7256 3 жыл бұрын

I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the Olivia Laing book; I really want to read The Lonely City by her. And The Blue Castle sounds like such a comfort read!